2009 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix

  2009 Spanish Grand Prix

Race details
Race 3 of 17 races in the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
Date	3 May 2009
Location	Circuito de Jerez
Course	Permanent racing facility 4.423 km (2.748 mi)
MotoGP
Pole position
Rider	Jorge Lorenzo
Time	1:38.933
Fastest lap
Rider	Valentino Rossi
Time	1:39.818
Podium
First	Valentino Rossi
Second	Dani Pedrosa
Third	Casey Stoner
250 cc
Pole position
Rider	Alex Debón
Time	1:43.028
Fastest lap
Rider	Álvaro Bautista
Time	1:43.338
Podium
First	Hiroshi Aoyama
Second	Álvaro Bautista
Third	Marco Simoncelli
125 cc
Pole position
Rider	Julián Simón
Time	1:48.237
Fastest lap
Rider	Julián Simón
Time	1:47.057
Podium
First	Bradley Smith
Second	Sergio Gadea
Third	Marc Márquez

The 2009 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 2009 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 1–3 May 2009 at the Circuito de Jerez located in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain.

Report

In the MotoGP race, Valentino Rossi achieved his first win of the season to go top of the world championship standings, the world champion came home ahead of home favourite Dani Pedrosa, with Casey Stoner in third place.^[1] In the 250cc race, Hiroshi Aoyama capitalised on a late mistake of another home favourite, Álvaro Bautista, to take his first win since the 2007 Malaysian motorcycle Grand Prix.^[2] In the 125cc race, British rider Bradley Smith dominated the race to achieve his first victory at the 50th attempt, after title rivals Andrea Iannone and Julián Simón both crashed.^[3]

MotoGP classification

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	27	45:18.557	4	25
2	3	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	27	+2.700	2	20
3	27	Casey Stoner	Ducati	27	+10.507	3	16
4	14	Randy de Puniet	Honda	27	+31.893	5	13
5	33	Marco Melandri	Kawasaki	27	+33.128	11	11
6	65	Loris Capirossi	Suzuki	27	+34.128	6	10
7	5	Colin Edwards	Yamaha	27	+34.421	7	9
8	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Honda	27	+34.625	8	8
9	24	Toni Elías	Honda	27	+42.689	9	7
10	7	Chris Vermeulen	Suzuki	27	+45.183	10	6
11	59	Sete Gibernau	Ducati	27	+48.192	12	5
12	72	Yuki Takahashi	Honda	27	+51.875	13	4
13	52	James Toseland	Yamaha	27	+53.683	14	3
14	15	Alex de Angelis	Honda	27	+53.941	15	2
15	69	Nicky Hayden	Ducati	27	+1:01.237	16	1
16	88	Niccolò Canepa	Ducati	27	+1:10.896	18
Ret	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	23	Retirement	1
Ret	36	Mika Kallio	Ducati	12	Retirement	17

250 cc classification

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	4	Hiroshi Aoyama	Honda	26	45:08.805	6	25
2	19	Álvaro Bautista	Aprilia	26	+0.132	4	20
3	58	Marco Simoncelli	Gilera	26	+2.706	3	16
4	40	Héctor Barberá	Aprilia	26	+2.769	2	13
5	12	Thomas Lüthi	Aprilia	26	+17.946	8	11
6	75	Mattia Pasini	Aprilia	26	+17.950	15	10
7	28	Gábor Talmácsi	Aprilia	26	+26.288	10	9
8	16	Jules Cluzel	Aprilia	26	+26.472	5	8
9	15	Roberto Locatelli	Gilera	26	+27.646	16	7
10	35	Raffaele De Rosa	Honda	26	+32.369	12	6
11	63	Mike Di Meglio	Aprilia	26	+32.617	7	5
12	48	Shoya Tomizawa	Honda	26	+34.241	17	4
13	52	Lukáš Pešek	Aprilia	26	+36.889	11	3
14	55	Héctor Faubel	Honda	26	+37.237	9	2
15	14	Ratthapark Wilairot	Honda	26	+1:16.786	13	1
16	10	Imre Tóth	Aprilia	26	+1:25.509	19
17	8	Bastien Chesaux	Honda	25	+1 Lap	22
18	77	Aitor Rodríguez	Aprilia	25	+1 Lap	20
19	56	Vladimir Leonov	Aprilia	25	+1 Lap	23
20	53	Valentin Debise	Honda	25	+1 Lap	24
Ret	7	Axel Pons	Aprilia	22	Retirement	21
Ret	76	Iván Maestro	Aprilia	18	Retirement	25
Ret	25	Alex Baldolini	Aprilia	10	Retirement	18
Ret	6	Alex Debón	Aprilia	9	Accident	1
Ret	17	Karel Abraham	Aprilia	3	Accident	14
DNQ	54	Toby Markham	Honda

125 cc classification

Pos	No	Rider	Manufacturer	Laps	Time	Grid	Points
1	38	Bradley Smith	Aprilia	23	41:49.556	2	25
2	33	Sergio Gadea	Aprilia	23	+13.524	5	20
3	93	Marc Márquez	KTM	23	+13.553	4	16
4	45	Scott Redding	Aprilia	23	+14.251	7	13
5	7	Efrén Vázquez	Derbi	23	+14.758	15	11
6	11	Sandro Cortese	Derbi	23	+15.545	9	10
7	44	Pol Espargaró	Derbi	23	+15.556	10	9
8	99	Danny Webb	Aprilia	23	+17.772	8	8
9	77	Dominique Aegerter	Derbi	23	+18.960	6	7
10	18	Nicolás Terol	Aprilia	23	+19.053	18	6
11	6	Joan Olivé	Derbi	23	+32.480	11	5
12	12	Esteve Rabat	Aprilia	23	+32.554	16	4
13	14	Johann Zarco	Aprilia	23	+33.378	19	3
14	24	Simone Corsi	Aprilia	23	+41.533	12	2
15	16	Cameron Beaubier	KTM	23	+44.443	17	1
16	73	Takaaki Nakagami	Aprilia	23	+44.738	21
17	35	Randy Krummenacher	Aprilia	23	+44.934	13
18	8	Lorenzo Zanetti	Aprilia	23	+44.977	26
19	29	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	23	+55.464	3
20	69	Lukáš Šembera	Aprilia	23	+1:05.314	23
21	32	Lorenzo Savadori	Aprilia	23	+1:07.420	22
22	42	Alberto Moncayo	Aprilia	23	+1:16.825	25
23	39	Luis Salom	Honda	23	+1:25.188	29
24	53	Jasper Iwema	Honda	23	+1:28.903	24
25	87	Luca Marconi	Aprilia	23	+1:29.012	28
26	41	Borja Maestro	Aprilia	22	+1 Lap	30
27	31	Jordi Dalmau	Honda	22	+1 Lap	34
28	40	Eduard López	Aprilia	22	+1 Lap	33
Ret	94	Jonas Folger	Aprilia	21	Accident	35
Ret	71	Tomoyoshi Koyama	Loncin	21	Accident	20
Ret	5	Alexis Masbou	Loncin	13	Retirement	27
Ret	17	Stefan Bradl	Aprilia	8	Retirement	14
Ret	60	Julián Simón	Aprilia	5	Accident	1
DNS	88	Michael Ranseder	Haojue		Not started	32
DNQ	66	Matthew Hoyle	Haojue		Not qualified
DSQ	10	Luca Vitali	Aprilia		Ignored ride through penalty	31

References

• "MotoGP official website". Archived from the original on 2009-08-14. Retrieved 2009-05-03.

1. "Rossi secures Spanish GP triumph". BBC Sport. BBC. 2009-05-03. Archived from the original on 4 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
2. Beer, Matt (2009-05-03). "Aoyama beats Bautista to 250cc win". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Archived from the original on 2009-08-14. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
3. Beer, Matt (2009-05-03). "Smith claims first 125cc victory". autosport.com. Haymarket Publications. Archived from the original on 6 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-03.